Usefull Google tips

I'm not sure I'd consider this a tutorial, but it seems like the most logical forum to place it in. ;)

The following tips I got from an article titled Stupid Google Tricks by Particle Bored in the Spring 2002 issue of 2600 The Hacker Quarterly

Here are some uses for google other than the simple search for keywords:
-You can use the language tools link on main page of google to set the language to any language you'd like.

-use: 'search terms filetype:ext' to search for files with a specific DOS extension (i.e. xls, mbd, dll)

-use: 'search terms site:site to search' to search a specific site for information.

-use: 'search terms link:specify site' to search for sites that have linked to a specific site.

-use: 'allintitle: search terms' to search for sites with specific words or phrases in their titles (notice the syntax for this search, there is a space after the colon)

-you can also use google to search for a specific prefix or area code, and to perform reverse lookups on a phone number (enter # as search term in dashed format)

-The final tip given in the article by Particle Bored is:

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You may want to use this final trick quickly, since I fear the functionality may disappear soon after this article is published. Have you ever found the perfect document, only to be denied access because the .mil site where it resides doesn't like your source IP? If you look within the query results you will hopefully find links that say "Cached" or "View as HTML" Follow the link and you will be able to view Google's copy of the document.

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I have chosen to directly quote the author on the last point as I do not fully understand it.


One last note...when using the language tools link, notice in the "Google interface in your language" box....hacker is one of the language options.

Wow!! Google is an all purpose tool.

Faqt> The last tip......

Google actually goes out and downloads pages to their server. Sometimes, when you do a search, you will see a link that says "cached" or "View as html". The cached links are links to their own servers. It is copies of a page that exists(existed) somewhere else. The "View as html" comes up when a link goes to a pdf file. You can "view as html" instead of having to download the pdf to your computer. What they are saying is that sometime you don't have access to a certain document, but google had access at one point, and may have saved that document/page/whatever on their servers so you can still see it.

Thanks for the clarification Souleman.
I actually understood that concept of 'cached', but wasn't sure what was meant by .mil server not liking your IP source.
I don't think I've ever received a message about not having a likable IP address when trying to access a document.
Is this something that people encounter often?

I would assume that certain government and military sites block IPs from certain countries.

Here is the official page, for these tips:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html

I read the same article in 2600, but couldn't remember all of the tips, so i looked around on google's site, and low and behold, i found 'em. :)

oops- my bad, I didn't think to see if they were on the google site....oh well ;)
Perhaps I should stick to posting in the newbies forum.

thanks for the Link gstudios, and Faqt, good tut just the same..

Cheers..

thats really usefull, thx

Good hint Faqt,gstudios
Here is the official page, for these tips:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html

hey look, bello posted almost the exact same thing as gstudios. Although gstudios posted it 4 posts earlier, and about 13 days earlier.....

Good post, as some people have mentioned you can also find these tips in the advanced help section on the google web site. I use these tricks very frequently and find them very handy. The ones I use the most is encloseing the query string in quotes "like so" and useing + and - to controll what is searched and waht is not, keeping in mind that common words are excluded unless they are preceded by a + or inside a quoted string.

Well in my own opinion i think your post comes in handy :)

i have follow your tips and my search is so fast and accurate thanks to all of you

hey there everyone
i found this pretty informative as well, too bad the guy's banned :

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...=517795#517795

nice tip invader
too bad for him his banned but i think he's a good one he knows a lot .

hey invader sorry for what i have done i dont mean it hope i can make it up w/ you someday. thanks

free-fall

Antipoints are not that important . Secondly, if you post like this uselessly, you'll get negative AP's
IM me if you want to talk.

i dont want to be rude, just telling ya for good

I found exactly what i was looking for.
Thanks alot, great thread.

Hmm.. about the cached sites.. this is usefull if you are at work or school, and they block sites. Alot of the times, they block the IP address of the sites, therefore you can not get to the site, but... if you use the Google Cached version, it is not that site's IP address, it is Google's, so unless they have google blocked as well, you can get to the site on the cached version.. :-D